Matt Yglesias has a nice piece on this (May 26) and how the media got all carried away.
The media's lab leak fiasco
A huge fuckup, with perhaps not-so-huge policy stakes
https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-medias-lab-leak-fiascoI think it’s increasingly clear that this was a huge fiasco for the mainstream press that got way over their skis in terms of discourse-policing, and there is in fact a serious scientific question as to where the virus came from
